Posted in How to... by tomellard on 01-12-2007

Another day, another annoying question! :#Again we're talking about an automated video playback system for broadcast. It reaches into a directory and loads a set of videos under the instructions of a data file. All this is working fine, including multiple video sources etc. No problems here.Now, what I need to do is ...

Posted in How to... by tomellard on 01-11-2007

''OpenOffice writes additional information in the XLS file.''Thanks. The XLS output from Filemaker is also not readable. Maybe loading comma seperated values (.csv) would save some trouble?No matter, I'm using the DIR node for the moment, while Excel is being sourced. That's loading up files in a ...

Posted in How to... by tomellard on 01-09-2007

Hello again, working with Ventuz Basic, I am not sure if my XLS file is not right or I am missing something. I have created an XLS file using Open Office, I don't have MS Office available. When loading the file into the Excel Workbook node I get the error: ExcelWorkbook: Failed to open Excel Workbook. <br ...

Posted in General Discussion by tomellard on 01-09-2007

Many thanks for that, I'll keep watching. Meanwhile I have a question for another forum area...

Posted in General Discussion by tomellard on 01-08-2007

Hello again, last year I was here seeing about an interactive system for a museum. As it turned out, we had to go ahead using MaxMSP (no not the 3d software - the MIDI software) to get the kind of MIDI processing we needed - and the robustness to handle 4 year old musicians :-) Building an interface in MaxMSP is truly horrible. ...

Posted in How to... by tomellard on 08-14-2005

AAAAAAAaaaaaaargh! OK... let's try that.

Posted in General Discussion by tomellard on 07-21-2005

There will basically be two versions of the Ventuz Designer, one standard version, and one professional. That makes good sense. under of 1000 $ for the standard version, and about 5000 $ for the professional one Again that seems right. I'm a casual teacher at a science ...

Posted in Bug Reports by tomellard on 07-21-2005

drag an Axis Component to the Hierachy and leftklick on the y-position-property (to drag it over a Mover Component - for example). In this very moment a bluescreen flashes for half a second followed by a reboot. Can't&nbsp;reproduce that here, for what it's worth. &nbsp; DELL8300. nVidia 5200.

Posted in How to... by tomellard on 07-07-2005

Aah! Thanks. That was driving me crazy.

Posted in How to... by tomellard on 07-07-2005

Looks like the Sphere object has no inside but the cylinder can be made to have one. Having a 2sided sphere would be good - I guess we could import an .X object.